Installing a RHEL8 system with Driver Disk Update for various network interface cards shows an error message "modprobe: FATAL: Module <driver> is in use." or similar on the console
Issue
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When using inst.dd on the kernel command line to load a Driver Disk Update for QLogic NetXtreme II network cards, the following messages are seen during boot
dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: FATAL: Module cnic is in use. dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '<driver>': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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When using inst.dd on the kernel commandline to load a Driver Disk Update for QLogic FastLinQ 4xxxx network cards, the following messages are seen during boot
dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: FATAL: Module qed is in use. dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'qedr': Invalid argument dracut-initqueue[XXX]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '<driver>': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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When using inst.dd on the kernel command line to load a Driver Disk Update for Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E network cards, the following messages are seen during boot
kernel:(NULL device *): bnxt_re: probe error: bnxt_en ulp version magic 2 is not compatible! kernel:(NULL device *): bnxt_re: probe error: bnxt_en ulp version magic 2 is not compatible!
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The installation continues anyway without issue
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- anaconda
- Driver Disk Update
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Network cards
- QLogic NetXtreme II (bnx2fc/bnx2i/bnx2x/cnic drivers)
- QLogic FastLinQ 4xxxx (qed/qede/qedf/qedi drivers)
- Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E RoCE (bnxt_re driver)
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